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Thread Number: 67147
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
My collection just got a little older! |
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Post# 898615 9/13/2016 at 17:08 (2,781 days old) by jons1077  (Vancouver, Washington, USA) |
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Found this Westinghouse Laundromat on Craigslist for $100 located in Lincoln City, OR. Got it down to $50 and turns out to be a good find! More to come but here's a snapshot of it after we got it loaded onto the truck.
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Post# 898616 , Reply# 1 9/13/2016 at 17:10 (2,781 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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Post# 898617 , Reply# 2 9/13/2016 at 17:13 (2,781 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 898618 , Reply# 3 9/13/2016 at 17:25 (2,781 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Post# 898620 , Reply# 4 9/13/2016 at 17:25 (2,781 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 898628 , Reply# 5 9/13/2016 at 18:08 (2,781 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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L-4 Westinghouse These are fun machines, I got one about 25 years ago and put a new boot on it and had fun with it.
Ours is still at the warehouse but last time we tried it the motor did not want to run.
These are one of the #1 fun vintage AWs to watch, but also tangle about as badly as a Unimatic and they don't clean nearly as almost any other AW washer of the time frame.
Hope you can get it running and post Videos for the folks that have never seen one run. | ||
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Post# 898629 , Reply# 6 9/13/2016 at 18:11 (2,781 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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Congrats! | ||
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Post# 898717 , Reply# 7 9/14/2016 at 10:28 (2,780 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA) |
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Congrats Jon! Now you need some Rosalie's for sure! | ||
| Post# 898731 , Reply# 8 9/14/2016 at 13:43 (2,780 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Oh, are suds bad for a Westy laundromat? Jon's has a cool window and it's in excellent shape. It looks like the one in that Audrey Hepburn movie where she is blind. Is it "Wait until Dark"? I wouldn't know where to begin. | ||
| Post# 898736 , Reply# 9 9/14/2016 at 14:50 (2,780 days old) by newvista58 (Northern NJ) | ||
NICE FIND JON..... | ||
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Post# 898748 , Reply# 10 9/14/2016 at 16:38 (2,780 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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 That does look like it's in good shape! You'll have a lot of fun with it. Does your tub have the six vanes? (small ones at the upper edge by the front opening in addition to the lower vanes? I love how they flip the water around. I have the same model, it's fun to watch the suds slopping around the boot and clothes sliding over the "scrubbing dome" in the back. Congrats on a fun washer!
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Post# 898774 , Reply# 11 9/14/2016 at 19:59 (2,780 days old) by jons1077 (Vancouver, Washington, USA) |
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More photos
Sorry I don't have much info or photos. This one went promptly to storage since we're in the middle of listing the house on the market. I took a few more snapshots to tide us over until we get moved and out of storage. I can say that the belts look fairly new as well as the boot. It is very clean underneath and inside. I can't spot any rust. The timer knob turns appropriately and sounds like the cam(?) functions. This was still inside the home and was hooked up so it may actually fire up but will be some time before I get to that point.
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| Post# 898804 , Reply# 12 9/15/2016 at 02:33 (2,779 days old) by ilovewindex (Tualitan OR) | ||
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